Re: on CVS of Feb 1, 8:20am

[Sven Neumann <sven gimp org>]

Hi,

Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com> writes:

> > PS: Add directfb to your list of GDK targets. (See http://www.directfb.org/)
> Seems to be just adding hardware accel to the linux-fb port, so it
> should get merged with the linux-fb target I think. However it isn't
> going to happen unless these directfb guys decide to work closely with
> Alex and get it in to the GTK distribution... we haven't heard a thing
> from them or gotten any source so far.

DirectFB is not adding hardware accel to the linux-fb port, but a
hardware abstraction layer that allows you to write code for the
linux framebuffer that benefits from the capabilities of your gfx 
hardware or uses a software fallback if the desired function can 
not be mapped to hardware. Then, on top of DirectFB, there's our 
gdk-directfb backend.

The decision was made not to release this code before it has reached
a mature state. I can not do anything about this, but promise that 
you will get access to the source soon.


Salut, Sven